Pretext

It’s at best a pretext, but sometimes not even a pretext.

A source said that Sadhna had attacked Chaudhary with a knife after they met on pretext of some compromise at a park while the train was halted for sometime at the railway station in Delhi.

Five persons from Sewri lodged a complaint against a group of individuals, including a peon in Mantralaya, for allegedly duping them of Rs 20 lakh under the pretext of facilitating jobs at the secretariat.

In the end the show was cancelled owing to animal welfare concerns (three horses had died during filming – one reviewer wondered whether it was from boredom), although Biskind implies that it was a pretext for closing down an expensive mess.

I think it does so definitively, but the charge was nothing more than an obvious pretext to begin with.

It urged Danish law enforcement to take a hard stance against incitement and ensure it doesn’t happen again under any pretext.

Just a pretext for DeSantas to take over for public safety.

Moon Seong Mook, an analyst for the Seoul-based Korea Research Institute for National Strategy, said North Korea could use the South Korea-US drills as a pretext to resume testing activities.

Mr Okoye, an assistant superintendent of police, said the suspect was arrested after he allegedly defrauded one of the women, identified as Judith, under the pretext of marrying her.

Officers have been accused of disproportionately using pretext stops to search and question Black and Latinx drivers, potentially leading to higher uses of force or killings among those groups.

On this pretext, they allegedly took him to a secluded area near their locality, where the incident took place.

Or they just want to upstage the applecart in a manner that will put the country in the harm’s way, and give a pretext to their plot for an interim government?

Perhaps his most shocking act came when he killed a rival, then lured his pregnant girlfriend to the murder scene on the pretext that the man was waiting to see her.

Police raided the forest after receiving information of the deaths on "ignorant citizens starving to death under the pretext of meeting Jesus after being brainwashed" by Nthenge.

Sergey Alimov/Getty Images (WASHINGTON) — Yevgeny Prigozhin used a false pretext to lead his Wagner Group forces in an armed insurrection against the Russian state, according to a senior U.S. official.

She also claimed that war was manufactured as a “pretext” to send refugees to Poland.

So, therefore, what I feel is that the space which is available, on some pretext or other to these elements, needs to be evaluated," he said.

Tensions are likely to be prolonged as the allies continue their drills and the North uses them as a pretext to ramp up weapons development and intensify drills involving nuclear-capable missiles.

The junta has been using prison transfers in recent months as a pretext for interrogating, torturing and killing political prisoners, the AAPP said in a statement on Monday, citing the disappearance of 37 political prisoners on June 27 as one example.

The Košice Regional Court ruled in favour of nine Roma who were forcibly evicted from their homes in Nižné Kapustníky in Košice 11 years ago under the pretext of garbage removal.